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ˈmud-fish
A fish that inhabits mud. Also variously used spec. (see below).
a. A kind of loach (Crabb Technol. Dict. 1823); b. an African dipnoan fish of the family Lepidosirenidæ, a lepidosiren; c. U.S. a fish of the family Amiidæ, esp. the bow-fin, Amia calva; d. a fish of the genus Umbra or family Umbridæ, a mud minnow; e. a name formerly given in New York to the Killifish (Cent. Dict.); f. a gobiine fish, Gillichthys mirabilis (ibid.); g. Melanura pygmæa; h. the Australian barramunda, Ceratodus forsteri; i. a New Zealand fish, Neochanna apoda.
1502Maldon, Essex, Court-Rolls Bundle 61. No. 2 Attachiatus est per ml. mudfish, vic stokfishe, x barells samonum. 1558Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 167 viijbus of modefyshe. 1699W. Dampier Voy. 128 The Sea also supplys divers sorts of very good Fish, (viz.) Snooks, Mullets, Mud-fish. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 450 The Mud-fish. The species of this tribe are easily distinguished by the fleshy appendicule at the anus. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Mud-Fish (Melanura pygmæa), a small fish on the Atlantic coast which burrows in the mud. 1859Darwin in Life & Lett. II. 174 The mud-fish or lepidosiren. 1880Günther Fishes 372 The ‘Bow-fin’ or ‘Mud-fish’ (Amia calva) is not uncommon in many of the fresh waters of the United States. Ibid. 619 Umbra limi, locally distributed in the United States; called..‘Dog fish’ or ‘Mud-fish’ in America. 1882J. E. Tenison-Woods Fishes N.S. Wales 108 Neochanna is a remarkable mudfish of New Zealand. 1896tr. Boas' Zool. 386 The Mud-fish or Barramunda (Ceratodus) is a large, elongate animal, pointed at both ends. |